LSU TIGERS
LSU senior OF Antoine Duplantis has been one of the best hitters in the entire country over the past few years, and now he stands alone in Tiger history.
Against Southern Miss in the Baton Rouge regional final on Sunday night, he broke Eddy Furniss’s all-time LSU record of 352 career hits.
Below, you can see him smack hit No. 353, drawing a huge ovation from LSU faithful:
Antoine Duplantis just set the @LSUbaseball record for hits with 353.
Three hundred and fifty three hits…😮#RoadToOmaha | @LSUbaseball pic.twitter.com/yc97g860A3
— NCAA Baseball (@NCAACWS) June 3, 2019
Duplantis is No. 2 on the SEC’s all-time hits list, behind only current Mississippi State OF Jake Mangum. He and Mangum will continue to battle it out this postseason.
LSU is leading Southern Miss 3-1 right now. With a win, they’ll advance to the super regionals, which they’d get to host after Georgia lost its regional to Florida State earlier on Sunday.
Great day for LSU. Duplantis sets the school’s all time hits record, LSU advances to the super regional, and will now get to host as a 13 seed . Six of the 16 teams in the supers will be from the SEC. That’s pretty good.
Even more impressive, five of the 16 are from the SEC West.